Wed 30 December 2020: Pakistan has today said it will cancel former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s passport on February 16. Nawaz Sharif, 70, the chief of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and has been living in London since November, 2019 after the Lahore High Court granted him permission to go abroad for four weeks for […]
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Wed 30 December 2020: Indonesia has banned the controversial but politically influential hardline group the Islamic Defenders Front, the country’s chief security minister announced on Wednesday (Dec 30). Mahfud MD said the group, widely known by its acronym FPI, had been officially outlawed, effective immediately. FPI is led by firebrand Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab, a […]
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Tue 29 December 2020: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi today hit out at BJP governments in the states for bringing ordinances against religious conversion through fraudulent means, including those for the sake of marriage, claiming they violate the fundamental rights under the Constitution. He also called the Centre’s farm laws “draconian” and dared the Narendra Modi […]
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Tue 29 December 2020: Delegates visiting on invitation of Senate chairman Sadiq Sanjrani A 12-member parliamentary delegation of the African Union arrived in Pakistan on a week-long official visit Tuesday, a statement said. According to a press release issued by the Senate, the navel chief of Djibouti is also among the high-level parliamentarian delegation. During their visit, […]
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Tue 29 December 2020: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday directed police to take strict action against vandalisation of mobile towers and disruption of telecom services in the state during the farmers’ stir against the agri laws. A total of 1,561 mobile towers have been impacted in the state, according to an official statement. […]
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Mon 28 December 2020: A 19-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly murdering his 73-year-old grandmother – by hitting her on the head with a hammer – after she refused to give lend him money for a New Year’s party, Delhi Police said on Monday. On Sunday night police responded to a distress call from […]
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Mon 28 December 2020: Bangladesh on Monday began relocating the 2nd batch of Rohingya refugees to a remote island, amid concerns from rights groups, Anadolu reports. Speaking to Anadolu Agency over the phone, a Rohingya refugee set to be relocated said that 15 buses carrying nearly 1,000 refugees started their journey to Bangladesh’s southern port City of […]
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Mon 28 December 2020: Zhang Zhan is one of a number of people facing trial for exposing the initial chaos of Wuhan’s COVID-19 response. A Chinese citizen journalist held since May for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the COVID-19 outbreak unfolded was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday, almost a year after […]
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Mon 28 December 2020: Human rights activists in Kashmir point out that in the past army has killed many civilians in staged gun battle after terming them “rebels” to claim monetary benefits and medals. Indian police on Sunday accused an army officer and two associates of planting weapons on the bodies of three labourers killed […]
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Sun 27 December 2020: NEW DELHI — Some three dozen Muslim men have been arrested across Uttar Pradesh in the last one month under the controversial anti-conversion law promulgated on November 27 to curb the so-called ‘love jihad’, an Islamophobic conspiracy theory alleging that Muslim men target women belonging to non-Muslim communities for conversion to Islam by feigning love. According to media reports, […]
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